Vex vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Vex
based on 787 Vex vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Vex
Advice to Win Against Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Vex vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Vex in LoL
The stats shown here show several vital Vex against Zilean counter stats that may help you understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Zilean. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Vex normally has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Zilean. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Vex and Zilean
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Who is Better, Vex or Zilean?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vex usually fairs equally well when facing off against Zilean, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Vex makes an ok counter for Zilean.
While Vex does have a higher win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Vex also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Vex into Zilean.
Moreover, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vex vs Zilean matchups, Vex is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Vex is a decent counter for Zilean. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Vex against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Vex to counter Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex on average gets more CS compared to Zilean. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Vex versus Zilean build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting Zilean than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vex boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when countering Zilean with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Zilean as Vex, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Vex vs Zilean fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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